Why would a loving god preach a separatist belief? Is this logical?
No he doesn't. I don't worship him. He wants to send me to hell. Thats not very nice now is it.
No, its true, Jesus loves you, there's a song and everything!
lol I think I heard it. I almost caught on fire.
He loves you weather you worship Him or not. His love is unconditional.
Thats not what the bible says. It says I am a product of the devil and that i'm going to hell.
Stop buttering up the story sir.
name me one religion that isn't "separatist"? Imagine if there wasn't exclusivity...if everyone is in heaven( Hitler, Bin Laden, etc.) then it isn't heaven.
Have you died before? How do you know what happens after death?
That's a really good question, what do you think happens? I mean does it make sense that our consciousness just ceases to exist when our body dies? That doesn't seem logical too me.
I can honestly say I don't have a clue. It doesn't seem logical to me to go to heaven to worship jesus. Maybe if we are consisted of energy, our energy and conscious disperse somehow somewhere. I'm starting to like you Sybil. You have an individual mind!
LOL Thanks Marine :} Okay so lets put aside the whole Jesus question. I'm no scientist but we know energy never ceases to exist right, just changes form, and it's pretty clear we are made up of energy. And then you think about the fact that we seem to grow and change all though our lifes (okay now I'm wondering if this should be a whole different thread! LOL It makes sense tome that we continue, somehow in a individual way
I don't know, but I do know that if we think nothing happens after death, we limit our minds from thinking of what we don't know. If we assume we go to heaven to worship jesus, we limit our minds from thinking of what we don't know. I think our energy is possibly dispersed somewhere after dying, I don't have a clue of where. lol
This is a very valid point, and this may help explain some of your curiosity.
http://230nsc1.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbasees … ntrop.html
Sounds like you have an open mind Marine I like you too
Likewise. Always nice to see someone humble enough to admit what they don't know.
Well, what would make you think that your consciousness wouldn't end, when your body dies?
But, that's exactly what happens.....when you die. It is the END of your life. YOU lose consciousness and your dead.
All the energy in your body ceases to exist. Meaning, you're dead.
What, Do you think your "soul" or "spirit" goes somewhere else? And life continues?
How is that logical?
And, by the way, you don't have a soul or spirit. These are just words to describe people's actions.
So, now what?
Have you died before?
Those are ignorant comments considering our mind is unmapped. Are your beliefs absolute?
He still loves you. Maybe he's just disappointed. For all those who may be wondering:
Main Entry: sep·a·rat·ist
Pronunciation: \ˈse-p(ə-)rə-tist, ˈse-pə-ˌrā-\
Function: noun
Date: 1608
: one that favors separatism: as a capitalized : one of a group of 16th and 17th century English Protestants preferring to separate from rather than to reform the Church of England
b : an advocate of independence or autonomy for a part of a political unit (as a nation)
c : an advocate of racial or cultural separation
— separatist adjective
— sep·a·ra·tis·tic \ˌse-p(ə-)rə-ˈtis-tik\ adjective
Yep, jesus and the bible are separatists.
To the religious it seems your beliefs favor separatism.
My belief doesn't have empty threats and ask for followers.
I believe in equality, not favoritism of belief.
My friend you did not defined word separatist. Jesus drew very big crowd. He of cause separated Himself to meditate laud on the Word and of course He missed His DAD.
I am separatist too, when I meditate on Word.
God cannot take sin into heaven or paradise, since it would change heaven to hell.
Jesus does separate and he does create choice.
It's kinda like he is driving a wagon through your town.
He wants for ya to get on his wagon, but it is your choice. When he has left town this causes separation between you and his wagon. Did Him giving you choice condemned you? if in fact you are condemned. Everything concerning you is all your choice.
Nobody else can do anything except for to yell , come on get in I'll give ya a hand.
Why is there always a riddle or analogy to solve?
Helping with a wagon isn't the same as saying, believe or go to hell.
Stop buttering things up.
That is the way my grandfather would have explained to me when I was 10 years and I would have understood it. There isn't a riddle. I'm sorry that you do not want to understand.
If you follow, then you won't be separated.
If you connect with no one or nuthing, then you will always have no choice but to be INDIVIDUAL
So you have to follow to not be separated?
Why is jesus a separatist?
Was you not born an individual?
The Bible is a historical documentation of the lives of ancient prophets inspired by the word of God. It is not a living being per se. It is a scriptural text that promotes peace of mind and spiritual prosperity.
Your subjective description that it is a separatism form of literature is justified by your ignorance and limited intelligence.
Have you actually read the entire book with an open mind?
So, your not a separatist?
Peace of mind with threats of hell?
Have you read with a non separatist mind?
The Bible says human individuals chose to separate themselves from God, so, no the Bible doesn't create separatism. You and I do.
I'm guessing that you're thinking in terms of the modern definition of separate. Like anything taken out of context, it could appear that something means one thing to you while quite another to me.
If you and I were working on ....???carrying sheetrock upstairs and i asked you for a hand...would you do what I asked, what I meant or clarify my request ? Kinda extreme example but , you get the point.
If you really want a biblically based answer, let us all know exactly what you're basing the question on and i'm sure me or somebody else can add sonmething.
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Believe or go to hell.
Believers believe they are rewarded for their belief over non believers. Separatism.
Actually, God says to choose this day whom you will serve. Choose which door you want to walk through, what kind of car or truck you want to drive. We make choices all the time without giving a second thought about them.
We are very picky about who works on our cars, who cuts our hair, and who our doctor is. When it comes to following after a spirit, we don't seem to care and follow just any of them.
Jesus is not a separatist. Jesus gave His life for the sins of all men to redeem them back to God from where they originated. This is not separatist, but unity in God.
This is why I love you my friend the truth lives in you.
Unity that separates believers and non believers. Is that unity? It is separatism.
God did not create hell for man. He said fallow me and I will take care of rest. But He value of freedom of choice and will protect it even you make decision to go to hell. Hell is nothing else as separation from God and there will be everything what people do not like. That's devil's job to constantly harass the people. He would like you to believe that is all God's or Jesus fault.
He said I do not condemn or judge anyone but the Word will judge you in the last day.
Man, you get right to it, don't you!
OK....working backwards yeah, believe or go to hell is about right BUT
it is never God's will that anybody goes to hell...
from the time you're born till the minute you die we're given a continuous stream of chances to believe. In life, we walk past a trillion open doors and it's up to us to walk thru. Man...i didn't walk thru till i was 57...I did sins that weren't even invented and No, I can't say I walked thru, I gotta say my butt was picked up, slammed down and thrown right thru that door. It wasn't like i said, "err, Uhh, God can I come in?" It was much more like he said "Git y'ass in here boy, now" And i did.
Up till that time, yeah, I was walking separate bcause i separated myself from him. But that was never what he wanted...it was just what he let me do. Men create separatism, I think mainly because we all think we're better than the next guy...but that's just my opinion.
God, no...he wants all the kids home and he turns nobody away when they come knocking.
So, what do you think?
I think the bible claims to do whatever you want and you get into heaven as long as you ask for forgiveness and accept jesus.
Jesus is a separatist belief. Those who don't believe aren't in the jesus club.
The BIBLE is far from saying do whatever you want. When Jesus came he re-iterated the Commandments, spoke of faith, and judgment. I have faith, and I still know I will be judged, just as you will, and everyone else. Hopefully we all end up in the same place.
Thats not what the bible says to those that have an individual belief.
The bible says you will go to hell for having an individual belief.
A separatist bible.
I guess we just have two different interpretations of what we've read then. To me the main point of the BIBLE wasn't believe or go to hell. It was help people, be humble, and have faith.
It it is divine, how many interpretations should it have?
That depends on what you choose to believe. Obviously you have a different interpretation than mine, and you don't believe in it.
So, I am a science experiment born an individual to see if I follow the chosen belief? Doesn't sound divine to me.
No you are the product of two individuals who defied GOD, and rather than GOD just eliminating his creation all together, he gave us a chance to do the right thing.
Ah, so he gave us free will to choose. Why didn't he make us into animals if he wanted us to follow his path? Animals have no individual path. They follow nature. Why don't other animals have free will? So how does a group belief differ from being an animal?
Who knows what path an animal follows? GOD made humans after animals. During Genesis you can see that GOD was pleased with his creations, and in his plan made them better with each new creation.
{1:26} And God said, Let us make man in our image,
after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish
of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle,
and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth. {1:27} So God created man in his
[own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and
female created he them. {1:28} And God blessed them, and
God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish
the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of
the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living
thing that moveth upon the earth
Do animals individualize or follow a script? I have already read the bible. It's silly.
I don't know about individualize, but I do know that many species demonstrate many of the same acts as humans. They communicate, socialize, get angry, form groups etc.. Some animals individualize, and some surely do not. Unless you can talk to an animal, it's hard to say what they are thinking.
What animal have you seen in church seeking belief besides the human ?
What animal do you see on the computer having bible debates?
Would we have bible debates if we were like all other animals or would we be content with what we have with no need for belief?
What would happen if we all had the same belief? We would be like every other animal right? Content with 1 script.
My mind that I think, believe and or KNOW with has not yet been classified. I am what I am and I don't eat spinach. I do not want to be separated. I am not a follower or a leader. I do however feel better when I am going in the same direction as somebody.
Was you born to follow the bible or was it just a science test to see if you would believe or not?
Who would want to be part of a science experiment?
How are you not a follower if you follow a belief?
If jesus isn't a separatist, why are we argueing whether or not he's a separatist? Wouldn't we agree?
Hmmm.....
Since you did say, "What do you think?"
I guess, I'll tell you.
How ever, mostly what I have to say is directed at the words you chose for your opinion.
How ever, the simple fact that any religious text printed anywhere, has been revised too many times to be, believed as far as anything it has to say.
Secondly, Jesus Christ was a real man and a real minister. He had many followers, because he spoke unlike any other. People were spell-bound by his words, because they had no consciousness about them. They were still driven by nature, kind of like when you were a child, new born. Yet, these people were full grown adults.
You didn't have a clue what was going on. You didn't even know who you were you, until your parents gave you a name?
Then as you grew up, you were exposed to religion, which now controls your life, in ways you can not explain.
Jesus Christ was NOT a prophet. He wasn't nor is a God. And, he was not the son of God.
He was human and lived his life by teaching, mentoring and ministering to those who would listen.
His only message: accept your human consciousness as your life and you'll live eternally. You can do so, thru his words, if you put the words into the right context. Something "religion" purposely didn't do. So as to better control the masses.
That was fun.....anyone else.
I was unaware that I was arguing. didn't mean to sound like it. Thought that I was saying what you might need to hear.
I might have been mistakes as to what you meant to be saying.
I don't think that Jesus is a separatist or else he wouldn't driving his wagon through your town wanting everyone to get on the wagon. He will be a separatist to you if ya don't get on the wagon. He definitely did not like that church organization that was going on at that time and I don't think he would like today's churches much better that the old one.
Guess what? I'm not on his wagon. He is a separatist because I don't share his belief. It was his choice to create a separatist belief, not mine.
Hmmmm....I will admit that the exchange was falling apart a bit and I thank God for the comic relief you provided.
Well if we were GOD we could do anything that we wanted to because we think that we could do it better. We aint god and we couldn't do it any better.
God is all things. Any one can look at the things that anyone else is doin and we can find something that WE THINK that they are doing wrong. Many times if we had known everything that that other person knew ????? WE didn't know
Are you speaking in tongue or riddles again? So, I have more logic than the bible god? How did that happen if I am his creation?
Would anybody like to support anything they're saying with any scripture ? be specific , no out of context stuff or "I heard it says..."
The discussion started on Jesus preaching separatism...can anybody support that with anythig Jesus sais and is recorded in the bible?
I'm pretty sure it says follow or go to hell and the belief in jesus is the only way to a favored afterlife.
No offense, but a lot of the time people don't want a bunch of scripture thrown in their face. I'm sure we could all go back and forth throwing out passages that prove, or disprove our comments, but that may just turn people off to the discussion. They are your posts though, so feel free to drop some scripture whenever you like.
Jesus did not like what the Pharasees (the dominant role players in the Temple) were teaching. Matthew 23 the whole chapter. Jesus said many times that the religious leaders, of that time,were teaching wrong and living wrong.
So, he created a separatist belief for them all to follow?
I once had a wife that argued with me even when I repeater something that she said the day before. Go figure??
Dude, and I know I am probably going to take a beating for this from the ladies, but that's all women.
I was actually talking about anyone that has an argumentative nature can not agree with anyone regardless of what is being said.
many years ago, sitting around the campfire drinking beer; myself and a few friends figured out what all women want.
What all women want and then they will be happy for a little while. All that they want is more than they have ever had before. We give it to them And then in a little while , what do they want?
You once HAD a wife. What'd you do kill her for it?
Would ya believe that I finally to make her so happy that she don't argue any more?
Yes, Jesus was a separatist. He said the Father would divide the righteous from the unrighteous, separate them, set them apart.
The old testament is full of admonitions for the Israelites to separate themselves from the idol worshippers and the unrighteous as well.
As for why a loving God would preach a separatist belief - for the same reason a loving parent does. Stay away from those kids, they're being watched by the police and get in trouble all the time.
For the same reason we separate ourselves from people with contagious illnesses. For the same reason we separate ourselves from those with congenitally bad attitudes.
It's because it's the best thing to do.
For I came to cause division, with a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a young wife against her mother-in-law. Indeed, a man’s enemies will be persons of his own household.”—Matt. 10:35, 36
So in a way, yes, he was a Separatist. But in context. When you are a real Christian and you are doing the right thing and your friends or family is not than they start to hate you b/c you make them look bad. Misery loves company. Like hangs out with like. If you and your friends are doing drugs for example and then all of a sudden you stop than how does that make your friends look or feel when they pass you a joint and you say "no."
I am an individual, friends contradict my individualism. I'm jk.
Nothing wrong with bud, it's not a tool of the devil. Alcohol is the tool of the devil. But it was alright for noah, right?
So, you have to be a christian to not be a separatist. If everyone isn't a christian, what does that make christians? Or do you just label the non christians separatists? Make sense?
That is what the Bible says.
And I am sort of confused as to what the argument is. I fairy certain I've missed something?? By Separtist I am not sure what the connotation is.
It is easier to belief our parrot Eric wrote the bible than it is to believe it is gods word!
could be the gods words but not God's word. lol
I would too and I haven't even met the parrot. lol
Eric types. or at least he pecks the keyboard. I think his life theories may be superior to mine. I will continue to study Eric the bird.
He already sounds smarter than some of the robotic minds. At least his meaning will be unpredictable.
Separatist: A grouped belief
Hi all I guess with that definition, yes he was a separatist. But then everyone who has any belief that is different from someone else's and shares that belief with at least one or two other people, by definition, would be considered separatist.We would have to includes scientists that strongly believe in a theory that differs from other groups of scientists.
Do scientists tell non believers they are going to hell for not believing their theory?
But Marine I am a believer andI don't tell people that, I don't think I have all the answers. I don'teven know allthe questions:) But I do know where my life was before God was in it and where it is now andbelieve menowismuch better
oops! sorry about that I really should have checked it before I posted...forgive me
I appreciate anyone strong enough to form individual belief. I simply disagree with a grouped separatist belief as the bible.
I appreciated you being honest and humble enough to understand you don't have all the questions or answers. Thank You
What Kind of Parrot is he? I hear African grays are very smart!
So, in essence, Immortalility is yours?
You can live forever, by changing your energy, to fit another form.
Can YOU Do That?
Has Humankind Evolved That Much That Each Individual Can Control Their Own Energy?
I don't think so. When you die, if there is any energy remaining of yours, it will be simply, either go into Earth, being absorbed or absorbed by the Universe, in general.
You say our energy dies then you say we are immortal. Sounds like a contradiction. Explain this?
You know, the scariest thing I've learned.
You, as a Human, are Immortal.
Your "Life" isn't meant to end.
And, the fact: that it's been hidden from the people for over 3000 years, is a crime.
You care to explain all that? And, will it sound logical?
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